Your kinds of work.
- Block paving
- Tarmac
- Resin-bound surfacing
- Gravel driveway
- Tar and chip
- Concrete driveway
- Patio
- Driveway repair
Rename them or add your own in the office.
Driveways and paving in Ireland
The drive quoted, dug, laid and paid.
Laying tarmacadam has its own entry in Revenue’s VAT rates database, at 13.5%.
Set up the day you sign up.
Tick driveways and paving and all of this is ready.
Built around the work.
Drive, path and patio on one quote.
Drive, path and patio can each be a Section of lines priced per square metre. Edging or lighting can be an Optional extra. Your customer ticks one or both, types their name and pays any deposit by card to accept.
When blocks or resin take a drive to 23%.
For a householder, a VAT-registered firm’s drive is 13.5%. Paving blocks, stone or resin costing you over two-thirds of the drive’s price before VAT put all of it at 23%.
The sub-base, before the blocks go down.
A photo filed on a visit can be marked During the work. The Job report drawn when the job is completed prints those photos between the before and the after, so the dig-out and sub-base stay on record.
The merchant’s bill, split by drive.
A supplier bill keeps its PDF or photo of the bill, and you name a Job on each line. A month of stone, sand and blocks splits across the drives that way, and each job shows its share as Billed by suppliers.
Questions, answered.
- Does a council deduct RCT from a paving contractor?
- Yes, for construction work. Revenue counts a local authority as a principal contractor, and new roads and footpaths, and repairs to old ones, as construction operations.
- Can a customer pay the deposit by bank transfer?
- Yes. When your customer accepts by phone, Record the answer on a quote with a Site opens the job, with the deposit’s invoice drafted on it for you to send. That invoice can be paid by bank transfer, and Record a payment records the transfer.
- Can it keep the guarantee I give on each drive?
- No. A job keeps no guarantee period, so nothing is sent when one ends. The wording of a drive’s guarantee, such as its years against sinking or weeds, can go in Your standard terms under Terms and exclusions in Settings. Those terms are copied onto each new quote, printed on its PDF and shown on your customer’s page.